More girls????

So Dylan is surrounded by girls on the Garrett side of the family. Besides Ashton, it's been girls! Anyhow, they were down this past weekend and he got to meet them.


What are all these girls! (Lynzee, Dylan, Kynzee)


And now my sisters too! 4 girls????


Moms of Twins holding twins!


Twins, holding twin cousins.

Tenille and lacey were sick this weekend, so they were little pills. They wanted me all the time and during church, if I had a gun.... HEE! Anyhow, They are better now and much happier. We can't wait to see you guys again!

Meeting new cousins

Brad's sister Shanna brought her kids down early. They came down on Saturday before the blessing. Kesslee and Ashton kept asking me where the baby was. He was sleeping when they got to our house so they had to wait until morning to hold them. Here they are!


Kesslee


Ashton

They are really good at holding babies because they have twin sisters who are just 1 week younger than Dylan.

the fly aways

Trampolines are so much fun. I remember whenever I jumped on the trampoline I got static hair really bad. Just like I had put my finger into an electrical outlet. Anyhow, I guess like Mother, Like daughter. Tenille and Lacey got some really good fly aways!

Here is Lacey


This is Lilly

Blessing Day

We Blessed Dylan on Oct. 14th. Afterwards we had some people over for lunch. It was lots of fun. Thanks everyone for coming!

That's me dressing Dylan


Dylan was really good the whole day.

These are some friends, Pat and Nicole, and their baby Lincoln. He is 5 months old.

Dylan with Mom and Dad

How did they....???

So, Tenille and lacey woke up from their nap, and they were happy so I continued doing what I was doing so I could finish and then they were just crying... like something really really bad had happened. I ran in there and lo and behold I found both of them like this....


.... How did one, let alone BOTH of them decide to put their shirts that way? It is beyond me. I laughed for 15 minutes.. SOrry Tenille and Lacey, I was laughing at your pain! HEE

Treehouse Museum

We took a little jaunt to the Treehouse Museum. It was a lot of fun and the girls really seemed to like it! Although, I think it is for older kids, like 2-3 year olds at youngest. They found things to play with that were interesting to them and that is what matters right? We also took them to the Discovery Gateway Museum. THE BEST! I loved it for the girls, I would take them to that museum over the treehouse, but it is a lot more expensive.



Brad with Tenille and Lacey



Kristin with Dylan

Baby toys... again?

Lacey playing with the Toy, Tenille in the background

Tenille just hanging out on the floor

So, I got all Tenille and Laceys old baby toys out and now that is ALL Tenille and Lacey want to play with. Dylan can't have any. VERY POSSESSIVE! Sheesh! If I am trying to play with Dylan, they flip a cookie! They want the toy he has! I really wish I could reason with a 1 and 1/2 year old! I've tried, it just doesn't work. Anyhow, I find it funny that they have regressed a bit since Dylan was born. They want his bottles, his pacifiers, his blankets, spitrags, you name it.

So, I have another funny story. Tenille is possessive of those links, and Lacey loves to push Tenilles buttons. It made Brad mad because of the incesant screaming and wailing. He THREW THEM OUT THE DOOR!!!! Bye Bye Links. Tenille and Lacey just stood there looking at him, like they couldn't believe their eyes. At this rate, if Brad throws everything out the door that they fight over, we won't have ANYTHING left in the house! HEE

100 things

so Jamie, here's my attempt at your challenge!

1. I love to read
2. I enjoy cooking
3. I went to cooking school at the ATC
4. I've been married 7 years in Dec.
5. I was on the seminary counsel in High School
6. I took 9 years of piano lessons and can't play a note'
7. I can play the trumpet
8. my favorite color is orange
9. I like to watch old movies
10. I enjoy rollerblading
11. I have 3 kids
12. I have a dog named Pogo
13. My father in law lives with us
14. I love to ski but haven't been in 4 years because of pregnancy, busy with kids, etc.
15. My favorite actress is Doris Day
16. I can drive a stick and prefer it
17. I have 4 brothers and 1 sister
18. I am 12 credits away from my associates degree
19. When I go back, I'd like to study botany
20. I love shopping, especially online right now with all the kids!
21. I love to color my hair in fun ways!
22. I like having long hair because I can pull it back away from my face
23. I am right handed
24. I play pool left handed
25. I am a peace maker
26. I don't like to text message
27. my favorite food is spaghetti
28. I can't chew a piece of gum for more than 5 minutes
29. I never had to have braces
30. I am 5'4 3/4"
31. I weight too much right now! hee but am currently dieting to lose the excess weight
32. I used to work as a teller and I loved it!
33. I am now a stay at home mom and it's very rewarding
34. I don't like soda pop except for an occasional Coke
35. I love water, just plain old water
36. I hate going to the bathroom, I feel like it's a waste of time
37. I am usually more cranky after a nap then if I hadn't taken one
38. I met my husband in a singles ward
39. I hit on him first and told him I thought he was a "hottie"
40. I love going away for the weekend but find that hard to do when you have kids
41. I have an adopted daugher, Halle
42. My birthday is May 8th, 1980
43. I am a homebody
44. I wish I had more friends but don't take the initiative to call
45. I LOVE art
46. I was sterling scholar in Business in High School
47. I love backpacking
48. I HATE fishing because I just don't have the patience for it
49. I can wake board
50. I can water ski
51. I don't know how to snowboard but would love to learn
52. I am shy
53. I think I am pretty funny
54. I have a passport and want to use it to go to Egypt
55. We are moving to Cedar City next January
56. I love getting pedicures
57. I am ticklish but don't enjoy being tickled
58. I love back rubs
59. I like bowling
60. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving and Christmas
61. I love talking about my kids
62. I paint my toenails but never my fingernails because I fidget and pick at it on my hands
63. I do no like acrylic fingernails
64. I can throw the javeline
65. I played 2 years of Soccer in high school
66. I was on the track team for 3 years and went to state in Javeline (I bit the dust!)
67. I love Monopoly
68. I like to play cards with friends and family
69. I like cookie dough more than the cooked cookies
70. I learned how to make bread when I was 10
71. I like sparkly eye makeup
72. I wish I could go on "What not to Wear" so I could learn how to dress myself in the best way
73. I don't enjoy wearing shoes
74. My feet are like armor
75. I like to take baths
76. I love softball especially coed city league teams just for fun
77. I have never read the bible all the way through
78. I kept a journal as a kid
79. I wish I knew how to speak spanish
80. I like music and have a variety on my I-Pod
81. My favorite singer is Elton John (I know, pretty dorky)
82. I'm allergic to cats and don't like them
83. I don't like marshmallows or plain chocolate so Smores are out
84. I love sitting around a fire outside talking
85. I don't like to be touched while I sleep
86. I am a morning person
87. I am really strict with my kids schedule
88. I can't stand clutter
89. If there is something missing in my house, it's probably in a drawer because I didn't want to look at it. HEE
90. I don't like vaccuming
91. I will wash the clothes, but dislike folding and putting them away
92. I enjoy cleaning the kitchen
93. I rarely make my bed except when we have company
94. I like having people over for food and games
95. i've never had a cold sore
96. I should wear glasses but don't
97. I don't like talking on the phone, you don't get to see body language that way
98. I love singing but get embarrassed around people
99. I like watching House, Desperate Housewives, Beauty and the Geek, and Gilmore Girls
100. I love my husband, I think he is such a good guy, a really hard worker!

Ok, here it is, like it or not (I could have kept going! Wow, once I got started i got to thinking lots more about myself)

smiles

Here are a few pics of my Dylan smiling! I love his smile, it's like he's smiling ear to ear!




Dylan is starting to grow out of his colic! YAY!!! Mind you, he still cries, but not like he was, he is a joy to be around, he will sit and watch his mobile for an hour and then just fall asleep if he's not poopy or hungry! He love the bath and I will let him stay in as long as he will without crying! He has now started sleeping about 6-8 hours the first stretch of the night and I love it! Gives me some ME time!

Hard Work

So, I've decided it's really difficult to be a mother of 3 kids when they are all under 18 months. Don't get me wrong, I love everything about them, although right now it is really hard. I find myself wishing I could go BACK to work because it's easier!!! I know that this is the place I should be but it doesn't make it any easier. Someone once said that negative thoughts and comments are toxic (thanks Tiffany). I now totally agree with you, if I am having a rotten day and gettiing upset with the way things are going, I find that it becomes worse. So goes the saying "if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. So, like today, rather than rant about all the things that are going wrong, I'll think about the things that are going right in my life and all the infinite blessings that are in my midst. There's this poem that I read that goes:

I hope that my child, looking back on today,
Remembers a mother who had time to play.
Children grow up while we're not looking,
There'll be years ahead for cleaning and cooking.
So cobwebs be quiet and dust go to sleep,
I'm rocking my baby, and babies don 't keep.

So, when I read through that poem, it also makes me think that, who cares what my house looks like! (besides me of course) I just have to let it go and let my kids know how much I really do love them. I need to teach them and cherish them while they are still little! I never want them to think I didn't have the time for them! They are some of the most important blessings in my life and I am grateful that Heavenly Father blessed us with them.

10 things I love....

About Lacey


1. She loves to be chased
2. She gives head butts as kisses
3. She is shy
4. She has the cutest little wiggle dance
5. Will dance whenever there is music on
6. Her eyes
7. She knows all her body parts
8. She always gives Tenille her toys back
9. If Tenille is crying about a paciier, Lacey will give Tenille hers
10. Her shoe Fetish

Lacey is such a cute girl. She brings so much to our family. She is unique in lots of ways. I am glad she is in our family!

10 Things I love....

About Tenille


1. How helpful she is
2. That she poses and smiles for the camera
3. She is so goofy
4. She always knows when I need a hug
5. Her independence
6. She is a good eater
7. Her smile
8. Her Pacifier fettish
9. She knows lots of words
10. That she thinks a sommersault means to spin around

Tenille is such a sweet girl. Despite the toddler terribles about her, I am glad that she is here to make our lives brighter!

Discovery Toys

So I have decided to become a Discovery Toys Educational Consultant. So, with the holiday season coming up, you will have to let me know if I can get any of you anything. I am just doing it for fun, so everything I will sell to you at wholesale! Just let me know!

6-Week Makeover

So I had reached an all time high weight and decided it was time to do something in a major way. My parents had been on the 6-week body makeover and had each lost at least 25 pounds in a short amount of time. I am all for it! So, I am going to use this blog as a before and after diary of my attempt. My goal is to get down to at least 160 lbs, which will probably take some time. And when I get there, my new goal will be 140. Here are some before and after pictures.




These are both engagement pics and show me at my physical best before we got married. I was running 2-3 miles every day and was eating well. Then I got sick, and stopped running because I passed out while I was running because I couldn't get enough air because of my bad cold. WORST thing I have ever done. I love running and have tried since to pick it up, but couldn't make it a habit. This time I will succeed.



This is during my last pregnancy, I'm a little dough girl! I'll make it back to being thin once again! I will keep you posted!

My attempt at doing hair

So, to continue on with the hair phiasco, I tried to do their hair this morning. This is my glorious attempt!



Here is Lacey



Here is Tenille

I think they look just like Pebbles from the flinstones, all we need is a little bone to put in their hair. So, Shanna and Tonya, I really need you to teach me some hair-doing skills! I am at a loss, the most we ever got done to out hair in school was we were lucky to get it brushed, I always looked like this little pauper child at school, so my mom isn't any help. I taught myself how to do my hair, I could french braid it, put it in pig tails, curl it, you name it. When I try doing any of that to anyone else, it's a disaster! HELP!!!!

First Day of Fall

I love fall! The temperatures are always so mild, and the leaves change colors, you get to decorate pumpkins, makes soups, and be all cuddly warm in the house.


This is Tenille enjoying the first day of fall.

This is Lacey

We welcome you fall!!!!

Torticollis

So here's Dylan, this is a perfect picture of the way he holds his head. He has been diagnosed with Torticollis. It is a condition in which a childs head is tilted to one side and turned toward the opposite side. It is caused by having tight muscles on one side of the neck and weak muscles on the other side. He has Torticollis on his left side. I just went to our first physical therapy appointment and we are going to get it fixed, it will be something I need to be dilligent about if I want him to get better. I need to stretch him every time I change his diaper and massage him after his bath every night. he has a flat spot on one side of his head because he's had this since birth and I just need to make sure that everything is on his left, I tilt his bottle to the left so he has to reach to find it, I need to sleep him on his left side so that his head will round itself out, and etc.... We will get him better though. I have to take him once a week for a while, and then every other week. Wish me luck!

Hospital Visit

So I took Dylan to the doctor on Friday Sept 14th because he was just always fussy. If he weren't eating or sleeping, he was fussing, most of the time inconsolably. I was there for nearly an hour, he was crying the entire time, all the while, I was trying my darndest to calm him down, tears sprung to my eyes as she sat there just looking at us, contemplating what to do for him. She said, well, it could be a few things, he might have acid reflux, or it might be meningitis. MENINGITIS!!!! AHHH!!! Is it treatable? I asked. Yes, but I need you to go to the ER at McKay Dee and get all the tests done. They need to get blood, urine, and spinal fluid. SPINAL FLUID!!! Are you kidding me?!?!? So I took him there, they ran all the tests including a chest X-Ray and found that he had Pnemonia. So we were in for a few days hospital stay at the least.

Anyhow, they got more blood, and did more tests including, a CAT Scan, EEG, tested his blood for Herpes, oh yeah, and he also had a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) POOR KID!!! As a mom, seeing your child going through all of these things, knowing the pain he is in, is a very hard thing.

The Meningitis test came back "Borderline" positive, the herpes test came back "Borderline" positive, and he had a high potassium count. Just kill me now! It was over the weekend, so I wasn't with his regular doctor and she was telling me that they were going to have to send us to Primary Childrens hospital to get a permanent pic line in so that I could give him long term anti-virals at home. I was flipping out! I had no idea he was this sick, no wonder he was always crying! So, come Sunday, my doctor was back in and she came in. She was fuming! She was angry that the other doctor did all of these tests that were unnecessary and then came in and told me what I was going to have to do.

So, all the tests, besides the pnemonia, came back negative the second time they did them, and we were able to go home on Monday. What a relief, I just had to keep him on his Antibiodics until the following sunday, and we would be done.

Dylan is a much happier kid now, although he does have Acid-Reflux which sometimes makes him cranky. Sometimes all of these trials in my life make me wonder "Why me?" But then I get to thinking all of the things that I am blessed with, which are infinite! Thank heavens for that!

THANK HEAVEN FOR OUR MOMMIES!

My mother in law Mary came down this previous weekend to help me out! What a relief! Brad has been out of town a lot and I have about come to my witts end with the kids! PERFECT TIMING!


Thank you so much Mary for coming to help me out. It was such a relief, especially because I came down with a cold. I love and appreciate you so much for all you do and have done for us! I am excited for you to come live with us!!

FLATHEAD MCGEE

So, have you ever seen the King of Queens episode where Doug wants a baby and Carrie doesn't? Well, in that episode Doug is talking to the baby and told her she was going to give her tummy time as to not let her become like "Flat-Head McGee". So, ever since Dylan came home from the hospital, he holds his head in only one way. He has been extremely fussy lately when he eats and when I go to burp him. My mother in law suggested I take him to the chiropractor because sometimes through birth, their neck or back is out of place. So I did so, and I found out that the right side of his neck is shorter and tighter than the left which is why he holds his head in the same place all the time. I am to massage the right side of his neck 4 times a day and place his head the other direction so as to correct his neck, and hopefully we will be able to make his head not be so flat on that one side. It's amazing how soft their bones are that in 6 weeks it could have caused that.


This is how you will typically see him holding his head.


Here is the tummy-time so as not to become like "flat-head McGee"


These are shoes that Bryan and Holly sent. Wyitt picked them out for Dylan. I just wanted to show them because they are almost too small. And yes Wyitt, you can teach him how to play catch!






Just some more cute pics of Dylan. He loves to take a bath and this is where he is the calmest!

LINK LOVIN'

So Tenille loves the links! She flips a cookie when Lacey even has one! So anyhow, the other day I remembered to take these pictures. The reason why was because I was cleaning the kitchen and I heard Tenille let out a blood curtling scream that sent me running to see what was wrong. Well, I ran into Lacey running from Tenille with a link in her hand and a HUGE mischievious smile on her face. LITTLE STINKER! She knows how to push Tenilles buttons and does so very well.

Here is Tenille with most of the links, this is how she carries them around most of the time.


This is Lacey and her little mischievious face!!


This is where Tenille placed her links and how Lacey ended up getting one of them, Tenille usually keeps a better watch on them!

LIVING PLANET AQUARIUM

On Labor Day this year we went with some friends and their kids to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. It is just the preview exhibit, but it will be built into a much larger aquarium that will hold huge fish!


This is Tenille by the Coral


This is Lacey looking at the Trout


This is Lacey looking through the tank at me


This is Tenille looking through the tank at me


We then went to Black Angus steak house. VERY yummy food! Afterwards in the car Tenille and Lacey were bushed from all the fun and excitement!


Here is Dylan, he didn't even know where he was!

Anyhow, the aquarium was small but cool. They had sharks and Manta Rays that you could pet! Brad made a comment on the way home. "It's too bad the girls won't remember this, but I guess it's good that they are learning some of this stuff." I think that is true, giving them experiences now is helping them learn more about the world around them!